Dylan Astrup

🎶Guess who's back, back again. Dylan's back, tell a friend.🎶 What's up, its Dough Dylan bringing you yet another bagel blog. a dough diary. some cooking commentary. a culinary chronicle. okay okay Dylan that is enough shenanigans, let's talk about why we're all actually here today; bagels. That's right, I'm back and better than ever. The burn on my hand from the last batch of bagels really put up a roadblock on my bagel journey, but my DNA built back better than ever. Since the last bagel episode, I've gotten to do a decent amount of bagel research. I visited the bagel motherland (aka New York) and tested out some of my fiercest competitors, like Utopia Bagels. Utopia is an award winning bagel shop founded in 1981 in Whitestone NYC and were awarded Best Bagel at BagelFest 2024. Now I'm not saying my goal is to win Best Bagel at BagelFest, but I'm not not saying that... So what's changed since the last time we talked? I got the right yeast. ...

Whats poppin, its Dough Dylan bringing you the freshest content available on the internet, delivered in the most hip format possible...a blog of course. Today marks the start of my bagel journey - perfecting the bagel recipe. Chewy but crunchy, soft and puffy yet sturdy, bagels are a balance of opposites. They are objectively the best way to start any day, if made correctly. Now, I have wayyy too much Italian New Yorker blood flowing through me, it's slightly disgraceful that its taken me this long to start studying the art of bagels. So I've decided to change that today.  I've made bagels once before years ago and they turned out surprisingly well, especially for the severe lack of research and effort that I put into them. I literally googled bagel recipes and used the first one I found from AllRecipes or something. It worked for me somehow. But I want to put in just a tad more effort and understanding behind the science of bagels, so obviously I turned to reddit. r/Bagels...